Beauregard Parish is a parish in Louisiana, United States, on the Texas state line in the southwestern corner of the state. It had a population of 36,549 at the 2020 census and covers 1,166 square miles (3,020 km2) centred near 30\u00b039\u2032N 93\u00b020\u2032W.<\/p>\n
DeRidder is the parish seat, and its postal code is 70634. The parish has one incorporated city, one town, four census-designated places, and a wider scatter of unincorporated communities and former sawmill settlements. It runs on Central time.<\/p>\n
Beauregard Parish’s places range from the county-seat city of DeRidder to small crossroads communities that grew up around long-closed lumber mills and railroad sidings. CDP = census-designated place (an unincorporated community the Census Bureau tracks separately); Unincorp. = an unincorporated community or rural locality with no separate census count.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeRidder<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 9,852<\/td>\n | 70634<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Merryville<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70653<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Longville<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70652<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Singer<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sugartown<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70662<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Oretta<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ragley<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70657<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dry Creek<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 70637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Grabow<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bancroft<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bivens<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bon Ami<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Carson<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Edith<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fields<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fulton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gaytine<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gekop<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gordon<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Helme<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hite<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hudson Addition<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ikes<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Juanita<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Junction<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kernan<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kipling<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Longacre<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ludington<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mystic<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Neale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Newlin<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pujo<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Seale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shear<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Tulla<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Turps<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Wye, sometimes listed as its own community, is a rail junction just outside DeRidder rather than a separate settlement; it is folded into the city’s local geography here rather than given its own row.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nBeauregard Parish is served by seven post-office ZIP codes in total; the smaller unincorporated communities scattered through the timberland share a ZIP with the nearest post-office town rather than carrying their own code.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nBeauregard Parish sits in the piney woods of southwestern Louisiana, part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. Of its 1,166 square miles, 1,157 square miles are land and 8.5 square miles are water. Longleaf and loblolly pine timberland covers most of the parish, worked by the sawmills that gave many of its small communities their start; the Anacoco and Bundicks creeks drain the northern and central parish toward the Calcasieu River.<\/p>\n Beauregard Parish borders Vernon Parish<\/a> to the north, Allen Parish<\/a> to the east, Jefferson Davis Parish<\/a> to the southeast, Calcasieu Parish<\/a> to the south, and Newton County, Texas<\/a>, across the state line to the west.<\/p>\n Beauregard Parish had 36,549 residents at the 2020 census, a density of about 32 people per square mile. DeRidder, the seat, is by far the largest community at 9,852; Merryville is the second-largest incorporated place. Median household income in the parish runs below the Louisiana median of $58,229, reflecting its rural, timber-and-agriculture economic base outside the DeRidder city limits.<\/p>\n Timber and forest products remain central to the parish economy, alongside agriculture, oilfield services, and the DeRidder-area retail and healthcare sector that serves the wider parish. Fort Johnson (the Army post formerly known as Fort Polk) sits just across the parish line in Vernon Parish and is a major employer for Beauregard Parish residents. Beauregard Parish government is organised under a police jury.<\/p>\n Beauregard Parish was carved out of the northern part of Calcasieu Parish and organized on January 1, 1913, named for Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard. Voters chose DeRidder as parish seat on October 15, 1912. In 1941, the parish and its neighbors hosted the Louisiana Maneuvers, the largest U.S. military training exercise ever held, staging more than 500,000 soldiers ahead of American entry into the Second World War.<\/p>\n U.S. Routes 171 and 190 cross the parish, along with Louisiana Highways 12, 26, 27, 109, 110, and 1147.<\/p>\n The nearest commercial airport is Lake Charles Regional Airport, roughly 35 miles south of DeRidder.<\/p>\n Where is Beauregard Parish?<\/strong> What is the population of Beauregard Parish?<\/strong> How big is Beauregard Parish?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Beauregard Parish?<\/strong> How many towns are in Beauregard Parish?<\/strong> |